Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Note on Texts; Introduction: Midwiving Subjects; 1 Lurking in the Gossip's Bowl: Men's Tales and Women's Words; 2 ""Sometimes the Midwives break it"": Pressing Maids and Making Women; 3 ""As God makes, so the Midwife shapes"": Crowning Heads and Reforming English Bodies; 4 Stealing the Seal: Baptizing Women and the Mark of Kingship; 5 ""(Miraculous) Matter"": Lucina at Ephesus and the Churching of Women; Epilogue: Lucina in London; Selected Bibliography; Index
